This position is located in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), Earth System Research Laboratories (ESRL) with one vacancy in Boulder, CO. his position is also announced under vacancy number OAR ESRL-24-12355949-DE, which is open to all US Citizens or Nationals. You must apply to both announcements if you want to be considered for both.

Duties

As an Emergency Management Specialist, you will perform the following duties: - Serve as Emergency Operations Coordinator, assisting the Designated Official as necessary in emergency situations. Serve as focal point with staff and other team members for emergency management matters. Maintain and implement David Skaggs Research Center's emergency management plan for response to a wide variety of emergency events that may impact the campus population. Responsible for maintaining readiness by planning and executing drills and exercises in accordance with the Occupant Emergency Plan. Maintain and implement Center's Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP). - Perform work concerned with physical measures designed to safeguard personnel, to prevent unauthorized access to equipment, facilities, material, and documents and to safeguard them against espionage, sabotage, damage, and theft. Exercise responsibility as an independent specialist for planning, coordinating, and performing a recognized administrative or management function, and for analyzing and advising on changes in policies and resources that affect program objectives. - Serve as a liaison to bureau representatives concerning interagency service level agreements. Exercise above-average judgment, resourcefulness, and diplomacy in dealing with Government officials, contractors and associates, visitors, and the general public. Utilize customer service skills both in person and by telephone, and work effectively as a team member, and balance the interests of a variety of clients. Create, review, and provide briefing materials.

Requirements

Qualifications

Qualification requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualification standards. This handbook is available on the Office of Personnel Management's website located at: https://www.opm.gov/policy. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the next lower grade level in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. This experience need not have been in the federal government. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations e.g., professional; philanthropic, religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies; knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. To qualify at the ZA-03 or GS-11 level: Specialized Experience: Applicants must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the ZA-02 (GS-9) in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following: Providing emergency preparedness operational support to include coordinating drills and exercises to ensure readiness to respond to natural and technical emergencies, disasters, and incidents requiring continuity of operations; and Maintaining, assessing, and evaluating emergency management processes, plans, standard operating procedures, or guidance for compliance with established emergency management directives, policies and regulations. -OR- EDUCATION: Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M., if related -OR- COMBINATION OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: A combination of education and experience equivalent to that described above. Note: Only graduate education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level may be used to qualify applicants for the GS-11.

Education

• College Transcript: If you are qualifying based on education, submit a copy of your college transcript that lists college courses detailing each course by the number and department (i.e., bio 101, math 210, etc.), course title, number of credit hours and grade earned. You must submit evidence that any education completed in a foreign institution is equivalent to U.S. education standards with your resume. You may submit an unofficial copy of the transcript at the initial phase of the application process. If course content cannot be easily identified from the title of the course as listed on your transcript, you must submit an official course description from the college/university that reflects the content at the time the course was taken.
• Education completed in colleges or universities outside the United States may be used to meet the above requirements. You must provide acceptable documentation that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States. For more information on how foreign education is evaluated visit: OPM Foreign Education Evaluation.

Contacts

• Address NOAA Office of Human Capital Services (OHCS) 1315 East West Hwy SSMC4 Silver Spring, MD 20910 US
• Name: Applicant Inquiries
• Email: [email protected]